Jeff Evans

This is so saddening. A lovely guy who was so fastidious about his beer writing and judging. We'll certainly miss him at the IBC.

Well played yesterday, Paul.

"We know she’s 15 because her name wasn’t redacted (I’ve chopped it off the screenshot). But then, that’s par for the course for these documents: only the men’s identities have been diligently obscured"

I'm also having a beer but not for the same reason.

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

🚨Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost about $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year. Actually, he could have ensured there were no staff cuts for the next decade and he'd still have net worth of 249B.

Thank you Lizzie Johnson.

Yuk!

It can be done: after illegal demolition, developers were ordered to rebuild the Carlton Tavern #brickbybrick. The #CrookedHousePub however is rubble. Burned down after purchase, bulldozed without planning, inquiry delayed, stalled, lawyers' fire power #RisingfromtheRubble #SavePubs

Did you forget to 'Open Channel D' on Sunday? Then take the mission tonight at 6:55pm and catch-up!
THE MAN FROM UNCLE (1964) #TPTVsubtitles

Yes, more sad news.

Kyiv is in total blackout,
as are many parts of Ukraine.
No water, no heating, no electricity.
Severe frost outside.

This is the result of constant russian attacks.

Thank you to those few who still care.

This time it was Bedminster.

Another fantastic day checking out the pubs of Bristol. Undoubtedly one of the best British beer cities, if not the best.

Getting stuck into: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935: a vulgar elected American President appeals to nationalism, anti-elite rhetoric, descends into fascism. Well done Penguin for republishing! Pairing with Fuller's Red Fox, to #AntiTrump, his red states & state media Fox News

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

How awful. Just months after Martyn.

Brewers/importers: just a reminder that if you'd like me to take a look at any new beers this year for my reviews page in Drinks Retailing magazine, please send me a note via my website, jeffevans.co.uk. Thanks.

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

Tomorrow’s treat at BFI Southbank

Great British Drinks Company buys up Keystone’s breweries Keystone-owned breweries including: Black Sheep Brewery, Purity, Brew By Numbers, Brick, North, Magic Rock and Fourpure, have all been acquired from Keystone by the newly-formed Great British Drinks C...

Great British Drinks Company buys up Keystone’s breweries @teamdb.bsky.social

Your annual reminder that “Blue Monday” is a complete fiction invented by a company that wanted to sell you more holidays.

Enjoy January! It’s quiet and cosy and time for semi-hibernation, reflection and being kind to yourself!

The clock tower at University of Reading's London Road Campus

Aerial view of University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus

University of Reading's Whiteknights House

University of Reading Rag Parade through Reading town centre

Can you believe @uniofreading.bsky.social is 100 years old this year?

And as part of their celebrations, they're running a series of guided walks in and around Whiteknights and London Road campuses, each telling different aspects of their history.

whatsonreading.com/venues/unive...

Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.

I have at least a couple of some of the earliest bottles of Bracia. I need to dig them out and report back.

Tyneside Lambic Trail is back, weekend of 24th & 25th January. Some great venues below & world-class beers.
See @craftbeerncl.bsky.social for FB link.